The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, commonly known as ECOOP, is an annual conference covering topics on object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications. Like other conferences, ECOOP offers various tracks and many simultaneous sessions, and thus has different meaning to different people.
The first ECOOP was held in Paris, France in 1986. It operates under the auspices of the Association Internationale pour les Technologies à Objets (AITO), a non-profit organization located in Germany.
ECOOP’s venue changes every year, and the categories of its program vary. Historically ECOOP has combined the presentation of academic papers with comparatively practical experience reports, panels, workshops and tutorials.